Well, yes he totally did. Obama did by
executive order what the Congress was poised to do until they
realized it might mean actually making Obama look like he was
president or something. And so that makes him an impeachable
dictator. Like Ronald Reagan. Or Bush 41. Boy is he in trouble now.
There are other topics this week, but
Obama made his move early enough in the week that a lot of editorial
cartoonists had time to pile on. Cartoonists with howling elephants
need not apply. Same with cartoonists who don't understand what
executive orders are or how they work, or who would attack Obama for
rescuing a puppy from a burning building because, you know, it's
Obama.
Also, as one blogger (can't retrieve
who it was now, but when I find the link I'll do the right thing) put
it, about a dozen women came forward over the years with stories that
Cosby drugged and raped them, but it didn't become a thing until a
male stand-up comic went off on it. Good for him, but that's not
exactly the point; the point is, how messed up is that?
And, apparently, also a thing: Charles
Manson got married. Uhm, okay. Because, you know, gay marriage is the real threat to the institution.
Today's toons were selected by royal edict from the week's offerings at McClatchy
DC, Cartoon Movement,
Go Comics, Politico's
Cartoon Gallery, Daryl
Cagle's Political Cartoons, About.com,
The Nib, and other fine
sources of cartoon goodness.
p3 Picks of the week: Mike
Luckovich, Steve
Benson, Jeff
Stahler, Signe
Wilkinson, Clay
Jones, Chan
Lowe, Drew
Sheneman, Joe
Heller, Dave
Fitzsimmons, Jeff
Koterba, Bruce
Plante, Matt
Wuerker, and Monte
Wolverton.
p3 Medal of Honor: Signe
Wilkinson.
p3 History-Eraser
Button Medal: Stuart
Carlson.
p3 Certificate of Harmonic Toon
Convergence (Part 1): Matt
Davies and Chris
Britt.
p3 Certificate of Harmonic Toon
Convergence (Part 2): Jimmy
Margulies and Clay
Bennett.
p3 Award for Best Adaptation from
Another Medium (tie): Jeff
Danziger and Mike
Luckovich.
p3 Certificate of Recognition for
Doing What He Can to Keep About 50 Hookers Employed for a Couple of
Years: Michael
Ramirez.
p3 World Toon Review: Patrick
Chappatte (Switzerland), Luojie
(China), and Marian
Kamensky (Austria).
IndyStar cartoonist Gary Varvel took a thumping this week, but I haven't made up my mind: Is the original toon racist (as opposed to thoughtless)? And, if it is, does the tweak fix anything? This feels like a poor decision aimed at compensating for a poor decision.
Ann Telnaes presents an
image that will make you want to poke your eyeballs out with
red-hot skewers. Good luck.
And speaking of hookers whose jobs
depended on the Keystone XL pipeline getting approved by Congress,
Mark Fiore pays tribute to the
soon-to-be-former-Senator-from-Louisiana.
Tom Tomorrow draws
the chalk outline around chivalry. Probably not a moment too
soon.
Keith Knight finds
the upside. Great, if
terrifying, fifth panel, too.
Tom the Dancing Bug presents
the
completely, utterly, and unbelievably sad adventures of Bob.
Red Meat's Milkman Dan has a
standing rule.
The Comic Strip Curmudgeon
presents what I consider to be a
genuinely disturbing Heathcliff panel. Historical context doesn't
help.
Comic Strip of the Day goes off
on "Don't
confuse me with the facts!"
You're lucky a sailor ain't never
allowed to hit a cap'n on his ship! This
is the 1936 Popeye cartoon that inspired this
New Yorker cartoon. No, not really, of course. Still, "Bridge
Ahoy!", a two-spinach-can story directed by Dave Fleischer with
animation by Seymour Kneitel and Roland Crandall, does have its
moments, most of which end up being a good argument against
privatizing infrastructure (although how Popeye's bridge gets paid
for is anybody's guess). It also features the signature Olive Oyl
line: "You keep your hands to yourself – that's what you
are!" Uncredited:
musical direction by Sammy Timberg, voice work by Jack Mercer
(Popeye), Lou Fleischer (J. Wellington Wimpy), Gus Wickie (Bluto,
plus the title song), and Mae Questel (the Slender One).
The Big, And Getting Bigger Since We
Completely Threw Out The Rulebook and Welcomed Back The Departed,
Oregon Toon Block:
Ex-Oregonian Jack Ohman worries
about the
whackjobs scaling the fence.
Theoretically, Likely Ex-Oregonian
Jen Sorensen looks at life
in the bubble. It's not as easy as you might think. Also, JS is
one of the reasons I like to link to artists on DailyKos,
because you get to read her talking about her thinking about her
work.
Matt Bors is
thankful.
Also, he wins the Best
Third Panel Award this week. A two-fer!
Jesse Springer has a toon that even some Duck fans may not get. That's hometown team humor for you. (Hint to outlanders: It involves
doing 80 in a 55 zone. Is that even illegal anymore?)
Test your toon captioning mojo at The
New Yorker's weekly caption-the-cartoon
contest. (Rules here.)
And you can browse The New Yorker's cartoon gallery here.
The p3 Sunday Comics Read-Along:
Pearls
Before Swine, Doonesbury,
Rhymes with Orange, Zits,
Adam @ Home, Mutts,
Over the
Hedge, Get
Fuzzy, Prince
Valiant, Blondie,
Bizarro, Mother
Goose & Grimm, Rose
is Rose, Luann,
Hagar
the Horrible, Pickles,
Rubes, Grand
Avenue, Freshly
Squeezed, The Brilliant Mind
of Edison Lee, and Jumble.
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